2012 JBF Leadership Awards
Wed, October 17, 2012
6:00 PM
Hearst Tower
Member Price: $130
Public Price: $170
Phone: 914.231.6180
Recognizing Visionaries Creating a More Healthful, Sustainable, and Safe Food World
With the JBF Leadership Awards, the James Beard Foundation has taken a bold step towards the important and complex realms of sustainability, food access, and public health. We hope to shed light on these timely issues by celebrating the visionaries responsible for creating a healthier, safer, and more sustainable food world. The Leadership Awards recognize specific outstanding initiatives as well as bodies of work and lifetime achievement. Excellence of work, innovation in approach, and scale of impact within a community or the nation were among the criteria used to select this year’s winners. The 2012 JBF Leadership Award recipients are:
Wendell Berry
Farmer, Poet, and Author, Lanes Landing Farm
Dr. Jason Clay
Senior Vice President, Market Transformation, World Wildlife Fund
Dr. Kathleen Merrigan
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Tensie Whelan
President, Rainforest Alliance
Malik Yakini
Executive Director, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Our 2012 honorees were honored at a dinner ceremony that took place during the James Beard Foundation Food Conference on October 17 in New York City.
Master of Ceremonies:
JBF Award Winner John Besh
Dinner prepared by:
Jeremy Bearman, Rouge Tomate, NYC, and Jeremy Barlow, Tāyst, Nashville
Event photos were taken by Max Breslow.
DINNER CO-HOST
FOUNDING PARTNER
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